Stamp collecting, also called philately, has been around as long as stamps themselves. With a virtually endless variety of stamps from around the world, and the establishment of reputable grading systems that...
Worldwide stamps allow you to travel the world through time and history without ever leaving home. Whether you want a single desirable stamp or entire worldwide stamp collection, you can find a wide variety of...
Worldwide stamps allows one to travel the world through time and history without ever leaving home. Worldwide stamps can be purchased on a stamp by stamp basis or as an entire collection. Stamps can make an...
To the untrained eye, a collectible stamp cover is nothing more than an envelope. However, for avid stamp collectors, the cover means much more. The term "cover" goes way back to before stamps and envelopes...
This GUIDE will show you how to remove stamps from paper, in a step-by-step process, so that you can have them ready for inclusion in your STAMP ALBUM or STOCKBOOK. HOW TO GET STARTED: Get yourself organized...
This GUIDE explains next 41 ( L -Z) ABBREVIATIONS that you will find when you view EBAY auction lots which relate to the Philatelic Section under the EBAY CATEGORY "STAMPS" Why are abbreviations used? Since...
This GUIDE explains 80 ABBREVIATIONS that you will find when you view EBAY auction lots which relate to the Philatelic Section under the EBAY CATEGORY "STAMPS". Why are abbreviations used? Since Ebay auction...
During the last fifty years I have had dealings with hundreds of stamp dealers. They ranged from the smallest to the largest, the sadly ignorant to the world-class expert, the poor to the wealthy, the crooked...
Long thought by many to be the most beautiful postage stamp ever produced for the United States Post Office Department (USPOD) by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), the design of the stamp has an...
The other night my wife and I watched an old episode of Law Order Special Victims Unit . The teleplay was the usual 'pedophile' yarn. What made the pervert unusual was his stamp collection! What made his stamp...